A video published by the New York Post on Saturday morning shows Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. explaining to a group of supporters that Covid-19 may have been “ethnically targeted” at Caucasian and black people, sparing Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese from severe outcomes.
“COVID-19. There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately,” the Kennedy scion said during a dinner on the Upper East Side. “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”
“We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact,” the Democratic hopeful added.
“We do know that the Chinese are spending hundreds of millions of dollars developing ethnic bioweapons and we are developing ethnic bioweapons. . . . They’re collecting Russian DNA. They’re collecting Chinese DNA so we can target people by race.”
RFK’s comments drew the condemnation of American Jewish organizations across the political spectrum.
“This is crazy,” Morton Klein, the president of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), told the Post. “It makes no sense that they would do that. I read everything. I was totally against the vaccine. . . . I wanted to convince myself it was correct not to take it. I have never seen anything like this.”
Similarly, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called RFK’s statements “deeply offensive.”
“The claim that COVID-19 was a bioweapon created by the Chinese or Jews to attack Caucasians and black people is deeply offensive and feeds into sinophobic and anti-semitic conspiracy theories about COVID-19 that we have seen evolve over the last three years,” the organization told the Post.
In April, Kennedy launched his bid to challenge President Joe Biden for the Democratic Party’s nomination in the 2024 election.
In 2021, he published a book, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health, which accused America’s leading public-health officials of collaborating in “a historic coup d’état against Western democracy.”
“Suddenly, those trusted institutions seemed to be acting in concert to generate fear, promote obedience, discourage critical thinking, and herd seven billion people to march to a single tune culminating in mass public health experiments with a novel, shoddily tested and improperly licensed technology so risky that manufacturers refused to produce it unless every government on Earth shielded them from liability,” Kennedy argued in another section.
The presidential hopeful also leads an anti-vaccine charity, Children’s Health Defense, which reportedly doubled its revenues in the first year of the pandemic, garnering nearly $7 million in donations.
However, family members including his sister, Kerry Kennedy – the chief executive of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization – have denounced RFK Jr.’s vaccine views as “completely wrong on this issue and very dangerous.”